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by Marcel Bucsescu A recent Knowledge@Wharton piece, published on February 9, 2012, caught my eye. The piece, titled Seven Steps for Board Success in the Facebook Age , is by Barry Libert , a director, author, and social technology investor. Libert's...

Proxy advisory firms Institutional Shareholder Service (ISS) and Glass Lewis & Co. recently released their United States policy recommendations for the 2016 proxy season. ISS updated its policy recommendations to: • Tighten restrictions...

by Barbara Blackford Board diversity in the United States has remained relatively unchanged, despite a variety of developments affecting United States public companies, including an increased emphasis on business justifications for diversity and...

Boris v. Schaheen , C.A. No. 8160-VCN (Del. Ch. Dec. 2, 2013) [ an enhanced version of this opinion is available to lexis.com subscribers ]. Issue Addressed : Whether the written consents of stockholders pursuant to DGCL Section 228 effectively selected...

Aileen Lee , partner at the famed venture fund Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and a former CEO herself, has a great post on TechCrunch with reasons companies should considering adding women to their boards of directors. Among the benefits...

Klaassen v. Allegro Dev. Corp. et al. , No. 8626, 2013 (Del. Ch. Nov. 7, 2013) [ an enhanced version of this opinion is available to lexis.com subscribers ]. This Chancery decision is the subject of an appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court. Among the...

The Delaware Court of Chancery in Kerbawy v. McDonnell , C.A. No. 10769-VCP (Del. Ch. Aug. 18, 2015), addresses whether written consents of stockholders were effective in replacing the board members of the company involved [subscribers can access an enhanced...

The role of directors on offshore hedge funds has often been, at best, a limited oversight role, with perfunctory annual meetings and limited interchange with the fund itself during the year.* This has been changing - slowly- as compliance moves to...